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Giuseppe Sedia

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Biography:

I am French-born Italian journalist living and working in Poland. I am reporter for the Italian daily Il Manifesto and run the website and film archive Kino Mania which is entirely devoted to Polish cinema. As a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI), I have served in the jury of several international film festivals.

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Anxiety (2023) 3/5 “The topic of assisted suicide [...] is a novelty in Polish cinema. Fabicki tackled it tactfully and in a restrained manner. The stay at the clinic never gets melodramatic and the sisters’ faces are blurred after Małgorzata drinks the lethal dose.” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Wrooklyn Zoo (2024) 3/5 “As a filmic tale of cultural intolerance, Wrooklyn Zoo could easily be adapted for the stage. And yet, it shines as a breakneck valentine to Wrocław brimmed with outdoor shots framing many of the city’s landmarks” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review The Polish Dancer (1917) 3/5 “The Polish Dancer is the only film with Negri to date from the “Polish period” that has been preserved in its entirety. Visually speaking [and] does not allow point-blank observation of Negri as a diamond in the rough.” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review It Came from the Water (2022) 3/5 “It Came from the Water has potentially everything to become a nonchalant cinematic manifesto for the Generation Z high school students that had to spend the best days of their youth in self-isolation.” – Kino Mania Jan 31, 2025 Full Review Pastoral Hide and Seek (1974) 4/5 “Terayama never adopted a extremist, Godard-esque autobiographical stance or used the cinema to make moral statements about the present [The film] is a visually eclectic cri de coeur in response to passing of time and its impact on memories.” – Film International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Bullet Ballet (1998) 3/5 “Described by the director as a cinematic reflection on his feelings of becoming a middle-aged man, Bullet Ballet perfectly displays Tsukamoto’s progression into artistic maturity before he reluctantly adopted digital cinema.” – Film International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Gate of Hell (1953) 93% 4/5 “On one hand, the reception of Gate of Hell was, indeed, the result of the short-term japonisme that affected world cinema stakeholders. On the other hand, it was a sumptuous reply to the angst and intricate storytelling as admired in Rashomon (1950) ” – Film International Jan 27, 2025 Full Review Justice (2024) 3/5 “As a cinematic ode to the Nineties in Poland, this well-packed thriller must be certainly appealing also to the streaming generations that did not live those days. It would hold its own even in a movie theatre.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Under the Volcano (2024) 4/5 “Just like Ruben Östlund’s films, Kocur’s drama is infused with a lull-before-the-storm feeling that pervades the interaction between the characters, both before and after the news of the military attack” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Next to Nothing (2023) 4/5 “The movie holds together very well thanks to Paczesny’s stupendous performance as Jarek, an upstanding and surly, almost Eastwood-esque, “rural detective” who is determined to find the truth at any cost. ” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Woman Of (2023) 100% 3/5 “Szumowska’s and Englert’s film deals with transitions in the broad sense including but not limited to the protagonist’s gender change struggles [They] deserve kudos for having assembled an abundant cast to portray a few round characters at different ages” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Scarborn (2023) 4/5 “Maślona’s engrossing and Tarantino-esque tale of revenge and emancipation features more slashes than gunshot The candle-lit card game sequence, in which the main characters gamble away their weapons, is worth alone the price of admission” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Palace (2023) 10% 1/5 “As a satire of the shallow society and vulgarians sheltered behind a luxury resort, Polański’s moving picture lacks bite and gets only a few laughs despite the sudden appearance of a penguin in the hotel.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Imago (2023) 4/5 “Enriched with Tomasz Naumiuk’s atmospheric cinematography, Imago is a vodka-fueled trainspotting-esque and hard-hitting cinematic ode to alternative culture in Poland when the toppling of Communism was just around the corner” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Peasants (2023) 61% 3/5 “The splending layer of animated oil painting gives luster to this soap opera-esque animated feature film. The Peasants resembles a big turbo-slavic cinematic marshmallow that could turn up the nose of Reymont specialists and ethnographers.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Doppelganger. The Double (2023) 3/5 “As a spy movie Doppelgänger. The Double displays a remarkable historical accuracy [The film] is a topflight euro spy thriller that deserves to be in the same tier of Henckel von Donnersmarck’s The Lives of Others (2006).” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Green Border (2023) 93% 5/5 “Holland manages at the same time to pay tribute to the recent efforts of Polish population, border guards included, aimed at helping the Ukrainians since February 2022, as well as to denounce Poland’s and EU’s double standards for refugees” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Hidden Network (2023) 2/5 “Szamałek’s story is indeed full of cutting remarks about tabloid journalism for its intrusiveness and lack of ethics Koleśnik’s tremendous performance adds zest to Adamski’s Polish take on Nordic noir film and thus preventing it from sinking into oblivion” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Hospital of the Transfiguration (1979) 3/5 “Partially filmed on the grounds of Tworkowski psychiatric near Warsaw, Hospital of the Transfiguration is a sombre but convincing piece of cinema in which there is no room for Schindler-like WWII rescuers to keep the tragedy at bay.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Balcony Movie (2021) 4/5 “[Łoziński Jr.] never seems to look down on his subjects despite being physically above them. No matter what is discussed, the films functions magnificently as a cordial, devoid of embellishments, open air confessional, that entertains the viewer” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Dangerous Gentlemen (2022) 3/5 “[The film] boasts a fanciful gallery of highly coloured characters caught playing cops-and-robbers when the Polish Highlands was under Austrian rule at the end of 19th century Kawalski also offers a nonchalant tribute to Zakopane in its old good days ” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Filip (2022) 3/5 “Kwieciński’s film breathes new life into Polish cinema The [main] character seems to suggest that every man for himself is the only option left in difficult times. Filip the “humiliator” is all but a military martyr ready to sacrifice all for his country.” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Bread and Salt (2022) 3/5 “[The director] juggles with directorial confidence the personal need to denounce the issue of intolerance in provincial Poland and delicate remembrance of his boyhood Chopin’s compositions, offer an interesting counterpoint the] summertime slice of life” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review Woman on the Roof (2022) 100% 3/5 “Even if Krzysztof Krauze’s Dług (The Debt, 1999) still remains the quintessential Polish drama on the topic of debt traps, Woman on the Roof finds it trump card in Pomykała’s outstanding delivery in the role of a lifetime” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review The Silent Twins (2022) 69% 3/5 “[The film] is a stylistically lopsided but concise piece of cinema that marks a more-than-welcome return to the witty camp of [Smoczyńska’s] debut feature As a cinematically fresh plastic flower bouquet [it] has something to say to every type of audience” – Kino Mania Jan 21, 2025 Full Review
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